8 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. pa THE COLUMBIAN. BLOO..ISBURG, PA. THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1908. qi i;i;i: ni:inu i nsir. IMMIunt 1fu. unci tVrulliir Slindct Aiikiiik TIMr t'linrni'(TlKlici. Tim hq lailuni, which l ono of tht mot Inti rci-.tiiiK pljicos In In Dor mudn, occupies tho old Imperial Eiap.izlne on Agar's Island, opposite p S:mry hills, writes T.ucy Elliot Kcnlcr In tho Indianapolis News. Th underground chambers nntt vcaltcd passages afford excellent ojt'ort unity for the nrrimgement of 'H. all tanks, whore one may observe tin' fih comfortably on a level with ciio'h eyes. The fish nre all from Bermudinn Winers, and tlioui;h the numbers ure tar loss than those In the New York armarium the collrr tion Is the most brilllntly colored oT any it tins been my fortune to see. Indeed, many of the colors are of the kinds called ImpoKKlb. Noth ing bat the rainbow Itself can rival the angel fish, with Its flashing blues And preens and yellows, as It ewm lazily, Its slow motions In stinct with grace. It Is broad, often weighs up to four pounds, and sur passes . 11 other local fish In the flavor of Its flesh as well as In its love'y hues. The tour eyed fish, small and Ie HrlitltiH; in sheltered coves, has ltc true eyes hidden In a long black ttr!re, slanting ; cress Its body, while two black Rpots in its tall are sufficiently realistic to rie Cflve any casual enemy into mis takes the fish's tall for its head. The hog flan is very common here. Its popular name being derived from Its swlnellke profile and denti tion. The long streamer like exten sion of its fins gives it a singularly graceful appearance. Specimens often weigh twenty pounds. The Spanish hog fish has a coat of much splendor about half blue and .half yellow. Hamlets and groupers ere the same thing, tho young fish called by tlve first name, and those longer than twenty inches by the second. "Hamlet" suggests a dual person ality, the fish changing color rap Wily, representing when dark, tun gloomy Prince of Denmark; tnd when pale and gloomy, the Prince's father's ghost. We went to tho Devil's Cave one day, a naturr.l c;;vo open above, where the nV.i;rn:en of ten T;eep their catcher, and over which ;Rn ancient Neptune looking native, with his trldint, ; resides. At feeding time -the grojpc many of them four feet long, rushed up savagely for thp'r food, making a tremendous splashlnrr; and the ar ray of their greRt open mouths was almost terrifying. These fish pos sess the protective device of chang ing their color rapidly. Sergeant majors, with five black iross bands upon their yellow sides, like tire chevrons of that non-com-mlssloned officer, the doctor fish, with lancellke processes on the side of Its candal peduncle, and with pro fessional instinct keeping its noso jlojie to the pipe down which fresh water was brought to the tank; the jquirrel fishes, brighter than the jold fishes of our fresh water aqua ria; and the bonlto and amber (Isn, io highly prized for table use; the se-acat, less than six inches long, old ?old in color, -elevnting at will a de cided coronet, and tumbling gently Jrom ledge to ledge as it worked its way down the tank; and the soap Osh, which makes a lather, when at tacked, to conceal Itself from Its enemy how different all the cro tures are from the fish of our north ern waters. Among the other forms of fish were black eels and morays; some striped morays weaving themselves in and out of a drain pipe and about ach other until it seemed as if they :ould never get untied. The green morays were solid moss color, b'x inches thick and possibly seven feet long. I was told that these crea '.ures coil themselves and strike like cobra, up from a depth of thirty feet of water but I cannot' vouch for '.he truth of the statement.. One tank was devoted to small actopl, sticking like Inert masses galnst the sides of the tank fasten ed to Its glass wall by hundreds of juttonllke suckers. As the keeper poked them w lth a stick they chang ed color, unwinding their vicious srms, recalling to the spectator the monsters in Victor Hugo's novel, 'Tollers of the Sea." A dead octo pus, uncurled on a neighboring beach, measured fourteen feet spread. No less fantastic, though, rar less hendlh, were the crayfish tuch as we eat for Sunday suppers, i delicious white flesh with gor seJnus colored shellB, which once a ear split down the back and are mmediately crawled out of by their rstwhlle Inhabitants. Bermuda rhll&ren have a debonair fashion of .Ishlng for crayfish with a bit of 'od flannel tied to a stout string, nly the fisher must be patient and Uow time for digestion to begin idfore jerking the victim lout of the abater. These creatures have more egs than I could count, very long vhlps pointed almost to a hair; and hey propel themiwdvea with their tils moving throutft the water v ltli tartling rapidity. OABTOHIA. IIm, a -jf Kind Yaa lly Always Bought tit Ql'KKIt ArSTKAMAN OAMK. Xntfvp riicitMiiit and (.hiuIN The liHtrl Soup of Kangaroo Tall. It Is on the blllabongs and creeks of thp back country that the beBt sport Is to be obtained. In wet sea sons ducks and teal are to be shot, and in the rnngps betwpen the Mur ray and the Murrumbldgee Rivers The "native pheasant," or mallee hen Is to be found. This Is a fine table bird, quite equal In my opin ion, to any English pheasant. It is very shy and not easy to obtain. I knew a man who kept a fpw blood hounds for hunting dingoes. He used to go Into the scrub where there were malee hens, put the dogs on tholr tracks and canter after them. , The birds would sometimes rise In an open spnee in tho scrub, and I have known him to bring down a brace of them when shooting from the saddle. Good duck shoottng might be had at the large water holes If it were possible to get near without being seen, and In the summer evenings excellent sport Is obtainable by waiting for the bronzpwlnged plg pons, which at sunset fly to water. Ther 1b also a small quail, like the Kgyptlan, to be shot in New South AVales after harvest. There they strip the wheat, I. o., take merely the heads off with a stripping ma chine, leaving the straw. I have known half a dozen guns make a capital bag without dogs. The Australian game bird, how ever. Is the native bustard, or "wild turkey," as It is there culled, al though it is now very scarce except In the extreme back country. At one time It was common enough in V'.-toria, though now rare In that State, but on the back blocks of New South Wales It was plentiful a few years ago. They were, nevertheless, difficult to stalk on foot, but, curiously enough will allow one to drive quite within range, and I have seen many shot from a buggy toward the Dar ling River. They are capital table birds, often larger than the biggest turkey one could buy at an English Christmas market. The flesh of tho breast is brown and tastes like wild duck. Properly cooked the Austra lia bustard has hardly Its equal. It prefers arid plains and I have shot them on the goldfields of Western Australia, where there Is little or no .water. They must be able to fly great distances, for one never sees them about the desert country of West Australia In the hot weath er. Imported hares are very numer ous In certain parts, and the rabbit Is ubiquitous. I remember an Aus tralian squatter, who was ruined by rabbits, saying he had not much left, but he would be glad to subscribe a pound toward a monument to the Idiot who Introduced rabbits and foxes into Australia! Rabbit shooting is to be had almost any where, and as they are trapped and poisoned by the hundred thousand, perhaps they too may become ex tinct In time. No one who has not seen the rabbit warrens in the sandy b;yjk country of the Darling would credit the enormous number which exist taere. I have passed miles of sandhills nt dusk which seemed ab solutely alive with vermin, as Aus tralians call them. This reminds me of an Englishman engaged to cook for the shearers on a back sta tioia, who by way of a treat, made a rabbit pie for the men He was nearly murdered for his pains! Aus trian shearers had not come, they said, to eat vermin. Twenty or thirty years ago the back country squatters, In order to destroy kangaroos, used to dig huge pits at the corners of their pad docks, running yards of calico along their wire fences and -then drive the kangaroos into the pits, clubbing and shooting them. In those days kan garoo skins were of no value; now that they are almost extinct, there Is a great demand for tlem. The flesh of a young kangaroo Is oy no means to be despised, and the kangaroo tall soup is u delicacy now hardly to be obtained. London Field. Mted 3,000,000 TVm'S Au. A feathered giant of tbe past. Extinct b'rd call- 1 th. jt'in.voi'liu'Jja. it lived about 3,000.000 yearn ago THB PHOXORHAOO. and had Its home In Patagonia. Its height"" was eltfht fent and Its bead tu large us that of a 'horse. H could not fly but was a sulft runner. It lived on living jTey. fld you ever hear of a coroner's Jury returning a verdict of "killed br l.ntinrtii7" mi WtftmW Baby Bait for Crocodiles. 1 "Wot do ye think." said the sailor, "of usln" live babies lu;' bait? We done It in Ceylon." "Hables for bait? 1- Ir.hhi;; for shark?'' "No; crocodile. l;-')v.- bvit lr the only thing for cro:oU!e. u.i.l evcr.v. body tires It. Ye rent a l iiliy" now n there for half a dollar a day." "Of course," the sailor went on, "til e tliln; ain't ns cruel a It sounds. No harm ever comes to the banks, or else, o' course, their mother wouldn't rent 'em. The kids Is simp, ly sot on the soft mud bank of a cro codile i-trcam and the hunter lays hid near them, a sure perfection. "The crocodile is lasy. He basks in the sun in midstream. Nothln' will draw him In to shore where we can pot him. Dut set a little fat naked baby on the bank and the crocodile soon rouses up. In he comes, a, greedy look in his dull eyes, ana then je open fire. "I have got as many as four cro codile with one baby in a morning's flshin". Some Cingalese woman wot lives near good crocodile streams make as much as two dollars a week rrg'lar out o' rentln' their babies for crocodile bait." There was so much ceremony con nected with a church cornerstone lay. Ing in New York City a few weeks ago that the moving picture machine man felt warranted to take a cou ple of miles of photographs. These pictures proved to be very good, und large crowds were delight, cd with the exnet reproduction of t:e dedicatory exercises. "I like the moving pictures better than I did the original service," con. fppsed a prominent member of the congregation. "You do?" gasped a devout ehler, "I'm surely pained to hear yoti say ho. Why should you prefer the pic. turer?" "lierause the picture man," answer, ed the prominent member, pleasantly, "cut out all the sermons." In a Texas -tourt not many months ago the clerk asked: "(ient'.enu n of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?" "We have," said the foreman. "What say you do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty or not gull, ty?" "We do," replied the foreman. I'You do? Do what?" usked the clerk. "We find the prisoner nt tho bar guilty or not guilty," said the fore man. "But, gentlemen, you must explr.lr.,'' said the clerk. "Of course," responded the fore, man. "You see, six of us find him guilty and six of us find him mil guil ty, and we're agreed to let it stand at that." A small brain that works is of more use that a massive intellect that balks. THE ONLY BIO SHOW BLOOMSBURO UNDER THEIR KUGh HAPPY The FRANK NEW GREATEST ALL FEMURE SHOWS. Acres of Animals, Acts, Antics one Attractions. Rccr.i Or Ten Thou annd to tnjoy a Thousand Rivets. THE TRIBUNAL OF NATIONS. 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Cut off the skin and then cut In strips lengthwise very thin. Rub the slices In meal and salt. Fry a long time until tender, and then put on butter and serve very hot. Sham KMngp Cake. Put two eggs In a coffee cup, beat until light, then fill cup with sweet cream; 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 heaping spoon baking powder, 1-2 spoon salt, flavor with lemon and bake in moderate oven. Cocoimut Ile. Procure a medium sized cocoanut and grate It. Add to this one cup of sugar, 2-3 cup of milk and the milk of the cocoanut. Separate two eggs, add the yolks then the whites beaten stiff; line a deep plate with a rich crust; pour the mixture in and bake. Gray Celluloid. So well are the needs of elderly women met that it is possible now to get all kinds of pretty combs and hair ornaments In gray celluloid. At one time gray haired women were confined to the choice of steel only if they wished decorations to match the hair, and such accessories are decidedly expensive. There 1b, how ever, no reason why every shade of gray hair may not be matched for the celluloid comes In a variety of tones, plain or steel mounted, and costs no more than the usual line of combs or ornaments.. Money Mutters. In all money matters a fair start Is essential, and there should be a clear understanding about it from the first. Begging for money is undignified to say the least. A girl's parents should arrange ths matter for her before she Is married, and slso that of her own personal expenses, that she may not have to go to 'her huB bnnd every time she wants money. Phoebe Wardell. Not In. "Is the lady of the 'house In?" ask ed the man at the door. "Say!" replied the kid on the stoop; "yer don't happen t' hear no woman talkln', does yer?" Yonkers Statesman. COIINIi THIS YEAR jy ,ft DAYS YiAlfcRrM- PAVILIONS, A, f rodiflous Meyond Photograph or Pencil. An - - - --j Alexander Brothers & Co.. I ... 1 r Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, and Confectionery. Pino Candies. Fresh Every Week. 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